… the county’s top law enforcement officer, Sheriff Lynn Yeates has weighed in on the issue. “Citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, a right that is protected by the Second Amendment and the Box Elder County Sheriff’s Department will use their full power and authority to protect citizens’ rights should the feds come to try and confiscate firearms,” said Yeates.

Neat! It’s always comforting to know that your local sheriff is actually on the side of the citizenry.

NASA SP-413, “Space Settlements, A Design Study,” was published in 1977 and brought together the results of a 1975 NASA-Ames Research Center effort to do a preliminary study of a giant torus space station for several thousand permanent inhabitants. It is a basic text on the subject of space colonies, but obtaining a copy of […]

Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 Bah. Nimoy proved that you can whisper your way to heart-stopping dramatic greatness… This is… affecting: And this is truth: All across the nerdosphere there are scenes such as this today: Except, of course, that in reality the girls are imaginary and the nerds […]

A few years ago, people started realizing that 3D printers and small CNC mills were going to revolutionize not just general manufacturing, but firearms manufacturing in particular. How can the government regulate firearms, when you can simply print one – or a dozen – up in your own home? Well, a way to throttle innovation […]

What’s dumber than a western political leader calling for government funded homeopathy and astrology? How about a pack of Surt worshippers trashing their own cultural heritage? Gentlemen… behold: And on top of trashing a museum full of artifacts, the Islamic State representatives did this: Isis burns thousands of books and rare manuscripts from Mosul’s libraries […]

This is neat… a photographer took some shots of the original Star Trek USS Enterprise filming model (currently removed from its gift-shop dungeon for some much needed restoration and improved displaying) and used those photos to replace Movie Enterprise in various scenes. And… it’s pretty awesome. http://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/Old-Glory More/bigger/better images at the link.

Huh: Bright Spot on Ceres Has Dimmer Companion Note the two bright “specks” within a single crater. Almost certainly the extremely bright appearance of the specks is due to the overall dim nature of the surroundings… something doesn’t need to be too terribly bright to look *blindingly* bright compared to dark surroundings. I’d bet a […]

This very, very impressive-looking display model was auctioned off way back in 2008: I much prefer this sort of display to even the most detailed computer rendering printed out onto foam core. Perhaps as 3D printing gets better & cheaper we’ll see a return to this sort of thing. Imagine if you could print off […]

A PDF pieced together from scans found on the Secret Projects forum of Senate testimony on the AIM-95 Agile air-to-air missile. Agile was, as the name might suggest, a close-in “dogfighting” missile, an attempt to incorporate the hard lessons learned by the USAF and USN getting their tails kicked in the skies over Viet Nam […]

Astrology could help take pressure off NHS doctors, claims Conservative MP He criticised the BBC and TV scientist Professor Brian Cox for taking a “dismissive” approach to astrology, and accused opponents of being “racially prejudiced”. … “I do believe that astrology and complementary medicine would help take the huge pressure off doctors. “Ninety per cent […]